Nail for boots and shoes



(No Model.)

H. R. ADAMS.

- NAIL FOR BOOTS AND sHons. v No. 275,010. Patented Apr. 3, 1883.

A with the accompanying drawings, is

'desired name-as of the manufacturers-or to that the said shoe is of the quality known as UNITED STATES f PATENT OFFICE,

HIRAM ADAMS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSlGNOR TO THE ADAMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

NAlL FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,010, dated April 3, 1883. Application filed August .25, 1882. (No model.)

In my improved type-headed nail the head 3 5 thereof, composed entirely of metal, has the appearance of a type, and, in fact, could be used to print should ink be applied to the said type=headed nail.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM B. ADAMS, of Boston, county of Sutfolk, and State of Massaehusetts, have invented an Improvement in Type-Headed Nails for Boots and Shoes, of which the following description, in connection a specifias in' Fig. 1, add to the durability and strength of a boot or shoe, and also act to retain the outer and inner soles together.

These type-headed nails maybe driven into any part of the boot or shoe, and be employed 5 to hold together the sole or other parts as well as other nails such as nowcommonly employed. r

1 do not claim a round or fiat head with it mark made thereon to designate a character. 50

Driven into the sole, my improved nail shows only the type'shaped letter.

By the term type-head i mean only to include a nail, the head of which, beyond the contour of the letter, is cutaway or removed. 5

I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, a sole-fastening or nail provided with a typeshaped head, having all the metal of the head beyond the contour of the letter cut away, as 64 and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name a to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

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This invention has for its object the production of a type headed nail to be driven into and mark the soles of boots and shoes with any designate a trade-mark or quality, the said nails serving for this purpose in addition to their regular functions of holding the soles together.

Figure 1 represents in side elevation a nail embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a top view of the nail shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 represents the sole of a shoe marked at its under side, by means of my improved type-headed nails, to designate that the shoe was made by the Adams Manufacturing Company, and

My improved nail consists of a shank, a, surrounded by a head, b, formed by striking one I end of the nail, while held in a suitable matrix, by means of a punch, which forms of the stock at that end of the nail a type the-main part of whie'hisvraised, as an ordinary printing- H lRAM R. ADAMS.

type, all the stock or metal of the nail-head Witnesses: outside the body of the letter being cut away, W. GREGORY,

B, J. Novas.

as designated by the letter A. l

These nails, driven into the faeeoi the sole, o- 

